Shaping the Circle

EXHIBIT:
Architecture

BOHLEN, MEYER, GIBSON & ASSOCIATES

Indiana's oldest architectural firm in continuous existence, Bohlen, Meyer,
Gibson & Associates, had as its founder Diedrich A.
Bohlen, who came to the city in 1851 from the
kingdom of Hanover, Germany. Among the many public buildings he designed were
Tomlinson Hall and the City Market, the original St. Vincent's Hospital,
Roberts Park Methodist Church, and the Convent of the Little Sisters of the
Poor. . . . His son, Oscar D., joined the practice of his father in 1884 to
form the D.A. Bohlen & Son firm that continued to build [Indianapolis]
landmarks: the new St. Vincent's Hospital and the Methodist Hospital, the
Murat Temple, the Majestic Building, the Banner-Whitehall Building, and the
French Lick Springs Hotel. After Oscar D. Bohlen's death in 1936, his son,
August C. Bohlen, continued the family tradition of "D.A. Bohlen & Son."